disreputably that body acted at the grave, as it were, of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. WOODWARD. I offer the following resolution, and ask the unanimous consent of the House for its consideration at this time: The House having received with becoming sensibility intelligence of the death of James Buchanan, ex-President of the United States, at his country-seat at Wheatland, on the 1st instant, does hereby resolve: 1. That whatever diversities of opinion may prevail in respect of the administration of Mr. Buchanan as President of the United States, the members of this House can cordially unite in honoring the purity of his private character, the ability and patriotic motives which illustrated his long career of public service, and the dignity which marked the retirement of the latter years of his life. 2. That, as a token of honor to the many virtues, public and private, of the illustrious sage and statesman whose death, in the ripeness of his age, has arrested the attention of the nation, the Speaker of the House is requested and authorized to appoint a committee of seven members to attend the funeral of Mr. Buchanan on behalf of the House, and to communicate a copy of these resolutions to the relatives of the deceased. The SPEAKER. If there is no objection, the resolutions are before the House. MR. FARNSWORTH. I suggest to the gentleman from Pennsylvania that he modify those resolutions a little. He certainly can not expect to get a unanimous vote of the House commending the "patriotic motives" which animated Mr. Buchanan at all times in his public career. For one, I certainly can not vote aye. Mr. MULLINS. Neither can I Mr. FARNSWORTH. I move to lay the resolutions upon the table, unless the gentleman will modify them. I am willing the grave shall bury the man's faults, and to speak only well of him, now that he is dead; but when the gentleman asks me to vote that the motives or Mr. Buchanan were always patriotic and pure, he asks me to vote what I believe to be a falsehood, and I can not do it. Mr. BLAINE. Will the gentleman from Pennsylvania allow me to have read a substitute, which I think would obviate the very disagreeable scene of contending over the body of a dead man? I have a resolution in my hand which I think would secure the unanimous consent of the House. Mr. ELDRIDGE. I think this scene corresponds with the usual action of this House in such matters. Mr. MULLINS. Especially on the other side of the House. The Clerk read as follows: The House having received, with becoming sensibility, intelligence of the death of James Buchanan, ex-President of the United States, at his country-seat at Wheatland, on the 1st instant, it is hereby Resolved, That, as a mark of honor to one who has held such eminent public station, the Speaker of the House is requested to appoint a committee of seven members to attend the funeral of Mr. Buchanan, on behalf of the House, and to communicate a copy of this resolution to the relatives of the deceased. Mr. WOODWARD. I can not accept that amendment. I call the previous question upon my resolution. Mr. BLAINE. I suppose if the call for the previous question is voted down, then my resolution would be in order as a substitute. Mr. FARNSWORTH. I move that the resolutions be laid upon the table. Mr. ELDRIDGE. Upon that motion I call for the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. Mr. STEVENS (of Pennsylvania). I ask unanimous consent to make a suggestion. Mr. VAN WYCK. I object. [Cries of "Oh, no!"] I withdraw the objection. No further objection being made, Mr. STEVENS (of Pennsylvania), said: I ask my colleague [Mr. Woodward] to consent to strike out the words "the ability and patriotic motives which illustrated his long career of public service," and let the resolution be adopted without that in it. Mr. FARNSWORTH. That is what I proposed. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read that portion of the resolution as proposed to be modified. The Clerk read as follows: That whatever diversities of opinion may prevail in respect to the administration of Mr. Buchanan as President of the United States, the members of this House can cordially unite in honoring the purity of his private character, and the dignity which marked the retirement of the latter years of his life. Mr. WOODWARD. If the House will strike out the general allusion to the patriotic motives of Mr. Buchanan they can do so, but I can not consent to do it myself. The question was then taken upon the motion to lay the resolutions on the table; and it was decided in the affirmative-yeas 74, nays 46, not voting 69; as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Allison, Arnell, James M. Ashley, Baldwin, Beaman, Beatty, Benton, Blaine, Blair, Bromwell, Broomall, Buckland, Cake, Reader W. Clarke, Sidney Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Cornell, Covode. Cullom, Delano, Dixon, Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston Farns Mr. RANDALL. I withdraw the objection. worth, Ferry, Fields, Garfield, Halsey, Harding, House, it is prevented by the gentleman Hill, Hopkins, Hunter, Julian, Kitchen, Wil- from Pennsylvania [Mr. Randall]. liam Lawrence, Logan, Loughridge, Mallory, Maynard, McClurg, Mercur, Miller, Moore, Morrill, Mullins, Myers, Newcomb, O'Neill, Paine, Perham, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Raum, Schenck, Selye, Stark weather, Aaron F.Stevens, Stokes, Taffe, Trowbridge, Upson, Van Aernam, Burt Van Horn, Robert T. Van Horn, Van Wyck, Ward, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, and Wil liam Williams-74. A few hours afterward the following resolution was passed-a constrained effort to be decent, the natural impossibility of which was palpable. This resolution was introduced by Mr. Blaine, of Maine, to get which through, as will be seen by comparison with the original substitute offered by him, he had to strike out the words, "with becoming sensibility;" also the word "honor," and insert "respect" instead. Was there ever such low-down sporting for terms at a funeral: NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Delos R. Ashley, Barnes, Beck, Boyer, Brooks, Burr, Butler, Eldridge, Getz, Golladay, Griswold, Haight, Higby, Holman, Hotchkiss, Chester D. Hubbard, Richard D. Hubbard, Ingersoll, Johnson, Jones, Kerr, Knott, Koontz, George V. Lawrence, Marshall, McCormick, Moorhead, Nib"The House of Representatives having reJack, Nicholson, Phelps, Plants, Randall, Ross, ceived intelligence of the death of James Sawyer, Scofield, Sitgreaves, Smith, Stewart, Taylor, Thomas, Lawrence S. Trimball, Van Buchanan, ex-President of the United States, Auken, Van Trump, Wood, and Woodward-46. at his country seat at Wheatland, on the 1st From this it will be seen that but 14 instant, do hereby resolve, that, as a mark Radicals, viz: Messrs. D. R. Ashley, Butler, nent public station, the Speaker of the of respect to one who has held such emiGriswold, Higby, Chester D. Hubbard, In-House is requested to appoint a committee gersoll, Koontz, G. V. Lawrence, Moorhead, Plants, Sawyer, Scofield, Smith and Taylor, had decency sufficient to oppose this effort to scandalize the grave of Mr. Buchanan. So the resolutions were laid on the table. Mr. Buchanan on behalf of the House, and of seven members to attend the funeral of to communicate a copy of this resolution to the relatives of the deceased." by the Senate. Mr. PAINE. I rise to make a privileged A Convict in the Penitentiary retained in Office report from the Committee on Reconstruc tion. Mr. PAINE. I have been requested to yield to the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Blaine] to offer a resolution. I will do so if it gives rise to no debate. Mr. RANDALL. I object to the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Blaine] offering the resolution. I will not object to my colleague, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Stevens], offering the resolution, for I think he is the proper person to present it. A CONVICT AND RADICAL OFFICE HOLDER AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME. In a previous chapter a notice of the arrival at the New York Penitentiary of exRadical Speaker of the New York Assembly, Callicott, and late Collector of Internal Revenue at Brooklyn. Some six months since the President sent to the Senate the reasons for the suspension of Callicott from the latter office, and notwithstanding that Callicott was indicted upon the charges alleged against him in the President's order of suspension, and was, about two months ago, convicted upon this indictment, and sentenced thereon to imprisonment in the penitentiary, it was not until the 16th of July, 1868, that the Senate concurred in the President's reasons for Callicott's suspension—thus keeping Callicott in office two months, while he was in the discharge of his duties as a convict at the New York Penitentiary. The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Penn- RADICALS INDORSE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL Mr. BLAINE. I desire it to be noted that if any mark of respect upon the death of ex-President Buchanan is prevented in this In the House of Representatives, the fol lowing resolutions came up for considera tion : "Resolved, That it was not the purpose or intention of this House to authorize the committee of managers, and it hereby denies the power or authority of said managers, under the Constitution, to require persons called before them as witnesses to produce or give evidence with reference to their personal and private papers; and that, in the opinion of this House, private and personal telegrams are within the provision of article four of the amendments to the Constitution, which provides that "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.' "And that any violation of the rights intended to be secured by said article is an outrage upon personal liberty, which no free people can tolerate or submit to." The SPEAKER. The question is on suspending the rules. Mr. ELDRIDGE. On that question I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The question was taken; and there were -yeas 27, nays 95, not voting 67; as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Barnes, Beck, Boyer, Burr, Cary, Eldridge, Getz, Glossbrenner, Golladay, Haight, Holman, Hotchkiss, Johnson, Jones, Kerr, Knott, Marshall, McCormick, McCullough, Niblack, Phelps, Ross, Sitgreaves, Stone, Lawrence S. Trimble, Van Trump, and Wood ward-27. NAYS-Messrs. Allison, Ames, Arnell, De los R. Ashley, Baldwin, Beaman, Beatty, Benton, Blaine, Blair, Bromwell, Buckland, Churchill, R. W. Clarke, Cobb, Coburn, Cornell, Covode, Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Donnelly, Driggs, Eckley, Eggleston, Ela, Farnsworth, Ferriss, Ferry, Fields, Garfield, Griswold, Harding, Higby, Hill, Hooper, Hopkins, Chester D. Hubbard, Hunter, Jenckes, Judd, Julian, Kelley, Ketcham, Kitchen, Koontz, Laflin, George V. Lawrence, William Lawrence, Lincoln, Loughridge, Maynard, McCarthy, McClurg, Miller, Moore, Moorhead, Mullins, Myers, Newcomb, Nunn, O'Neill, Orth, Paine, Perham, Pike, Poland, Polsley, Pomeroy, Price, Raum, Robertson, Sawyer, Schenck, Scofield, Selye, Smith, Starkweather, Aaron F. Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens, Stokes, Taffe, Taylor, Thomas, John Trimble, Trowbridge, Upson, Burt Van Horn, Robert T. Van Horn, Cadwalader C. Washburn, Henry D. Washburn, William B. Washburn, Welker, John T. Wilson, and Windom-95. The motion to suspend the rules was a test vote. Yeas, all Democrats, except General Cary, Independent. Nays, all Radicals. Thus the Radicals announce boldly their indorsement of the right to seize private papers, in violation of Article IV of the amendments to the Constitution. National Democratic Convention, Held at New York, July 4, 1868. For President-HORATIO SEYMOUR, of New York. For Vice-President-FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Jr., of Missouri. The Convention was called to order by Hon. August Belmont, of New York, Chairman Democratic National Convention, in an eloquent and well-timed speech, which elicited the greatest applause. Mr. Belmont nominated for temporary Chairman, the Hon. Henry S. Palmer, of Wisconsin, which was agreed to. Mr. Palmer, on taking the chair, returned his acknowledgments for the compliment conferred upon him, and, after a short speech, closed by introducing the Rev. Dr. Morgan, of New York, who offered prayers. Edwin O. Perrin, Esq., of New York, was appointed Secretary. The rules of the last convention were adopted as the rules of this, until otherwise directed. The Secretary then read the following: The National Democratic Committee, by virtue of the authority conferred upon them by the last National Democratic Convention, at a meeting held this day at Washington, D. C., voted to hold the next Convention for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States, on the 4th day of July, 1868, at twelve o'clock M, in the city of New York. The basis of representation, as fixed by the last Democratic Convention, is double the number of Senators and Representatives in Congress in each State under the last appointment. Each State is invited to send delegates accordingly. S. R. Lyman, Josiah Minot, H. B. Smith, Wm. M. Converse, Gideon Bradford, W. G. Steel, W. A. Gailbraith, John A. Nicholson, Odin Bowie, James Guthrie, L. S. Trimble, Rufus P. Ranney, W. E. Niblack, Wilber F. Storey, W. L. Bancroft, Lewis V. Bogy, George H. Paul, D. O Finch, Isaac E. Eaton, Thomas Hoynes, William McMillan, William Aiken, Absalom H. Chappell, George A. Houston, Joseph A. Rozier, A. B. Greenwood, John W. Leftwich, Thomas Sweeney, John Patrick, Jas. W. McCorckle, W. L. Sharkey, John Hancock, John H. McKinney. AUGUST BELMONT, Chm'n. Mr. Clymer (Pennsylvania) offered the Virginia, H. S. Walker; Wisconsin, S following: Clark. "Resolved, That there shall now be two committees appointed, each committee to consist of one delegate from each State, to be selected by respective delegates thereof, one committee to act as a Committee on Permanent Organization, and the other as a Committee on Credentials. The Chair put the question, viva voce, and declared the resolution adopted. The roll of the delegates was then called, and the following gentlemen were selected as members of the Committee on Credentials: Mr. Henry C. Murphy (New York)-I move that a committee of two from each State be selected by the delegates thereof to be appointed a Committee on Resolutions, and that all resolutions relating to the Plat form of the Democratic party be referred to that committee without debate. Adopted. chairmen of the different delegations the The Secretary then received from the names of the Committee on Resolutions and Platform, as follows: THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. Alabama, C. C. Langdon; Arkansas, A. H. Alabama, W. H. Barnes; Arkansas, E. C. Garland; California, J. H. Rose; ConnectiBoudinot; California, A. Jacoby; Connecticut, T. E. Doolittle; Delaware, James A. cut, M. Bulkley; Delaware, C. W. Wright; Bayard; Florida, W. Call; Georgia, Henry Florida, A. Huling; Georgia, E. H. Potter; S. Fitch; Illinois, Wm. J. Allen; Indiana, Illinois, T. A. Hayne; Indiana, Charles H. J. E. Macdonald; Iowa, J. H. O'Neill; Reeves; Iowa, J. D. Test; Kansas, W. Kansas, Geo. W. Glick; Kentucky, Wm. Shannon; Kentucky, J. B. McCreary; Preston; Louisiana, J. B. Eustis; Maine, Louisiana, D. D. Duponte; Maine, J. S. R. D. Rice; Maryland, Stephenson Archer; Drew; Maryland, G. F. Maddox; Massa- Massachusetts, Edward Avery; Michigan, chusetts, George W. Gill; Michigan, B. G. Charles E. Stuart; Minnesota, J. J. Green; Stout; Minnesota, W. A. Gorman; Missis- Mississippi, E. Barksdale; Missouri, Chas. sippi, P. M. Brown; Missouri, S. Sawyer; Manson; Nebraska, Charles F. Porter; Nebraska, J. Black; Nevada, J. E. Doyle; Nevada, J. A. St. Clair; New Hampshire, New Hampshire, J. Proctor; New Jersey, J. M. Campbell; New Jersey, Jacob R. J. R. Moullany; New York, J. A. Harden Wortendyke; New York, Henry C. Murburg; North Carolina, General W. R. Cox; phy; North Carolina, R. Strange; Ohio, Ohro, W. Griswold; Oregon, O. Joynt; Wm. J. Gilmore; Oregon, R. D. Fitch; Pennsylvania, General W. H. Miller; Rhode Pennsylvania, T. W. Hughes; Rhode IsIsland, W. Hale; South Carolina, W. D. land, Thomas Steere; South Carolina, Wade Simpson; Tennessee, J. F. Morse; Texas, Hampton; Tennessee, E. Cooper; Texas, H. Broughton; Vermont, W. Brigham; Vir- George W. Smith; Vermont, Charles M. ginia, George Blow; West Virginia, H. S. Davenport; Virginia, Thos. S. Bocock; Davis; Wisconsin, S. A. Pease. West Virginia, John Davis; Wisconsin, James A. Mallory. THE COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION. The following gentlemen were selected a Committee on Organization : SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Mr. Clymer, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Permanent Organization, reported as follows: For President, Hon. Horatio Seymour, of New York [great cheering]; and one Vice-President and Secretary from each State. The following are the Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of the Democratic Convention: Alabama, J. H. Clanton; Arkansas, J. 8. Dunham; California, E. Steele; Connecticut, J. A. Hovey; Delaware, C. Beasten; Florida, A. J. Seeier; Georgia, C. Peeples; Illinois, W. R. Morrison; Indiana, S. A. Burkirk; Iowa, W. F. Braman; Kansas, T. P. Fenlon; Kentucky, W. B. Machen; Louisiana, G. W. McCranie; Maine, Alabama, Reuben Chapman, Wm. A. J. E. Maddigan; Marylaud, A. K. Sylster; Lowe; Arkansas, B. Turner, John W. Massachusetts, John R. Briggs; Michigan, Wright; California, Hon. A. H. Rose, M. John Moore; Minnesota, E. A. McMahon; J. Gillett; Connecticut, H. A. Mill, George Mississippi, B. Matthews; Missouri, W. H. D. Harding; Delaware, George W. CumD. Hunter; Nebraska, G. L. Miller; Ne-mings, Custis W. Wright; Florida, Thos. vada, G. G. Berry; New Hampshire, J. Randall, C. H. Smith; Georgia, Hon. A. R. Adams; New Jersey, H. C. Little; New Wright, W. A. Reid; Illinois, D. M. WoodYork, Gen. J. A. Green, jr.; North Caro- son, W. T. Dowdell; Indiana, J. A. Craven, lina, W. N. H. Smith; Ohio, F. C. Leblonde; W. R. Bowls; Iowa, W. McClintock, P. H. Oregon, N. B. Bell; Pennsylvania, H. Cly- Bowsquet; Kansas, Andrew J. Meade, Isaac mer; Rhode Island, S. Pierce; South Caro- Sharp; Kentucky, Lucius Desha, Hart lina, Carlos Tracey; Tennessee, Gen. W. B. Gibson; Louisiana, Louis St. Martin, J. H. Bate; Texas, J. M. Burroughs; Vermont, Kennard; Maine, Isaac Reed, J. A. TrusJ. D. Deavett; Virginia, J. Barbour; Westcott; Maryland, Geo. R. Dennis, Outer bridge Horsey; Massachusetts, Peter Har- For Recording Secretaries-E. O. Perrin, of New York; Moses M. Strong, of Wisconsin; V. A. Gusken, of Georgia; F. M. Hutchinson, of Pennsylvania; Robert B. Tanney, of Illinois. For Sergeant-at-Arms-Edward A. Moore, of New York. RULES. It was also recommended that the rules of the Democratic Convention of 1864 be adopted for the government of this Convention. Carried. The Chairman appointed Mr. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, a committee to conduct the permanent Persident to the chair.. SPEECH OF MR. SEYMOUR. the station in which I am placed by your kind partiality. Men never met under greater responsibilities than those which now weigh upon us. [Applause.] "It is not a mere party triumph we seek. We are trying to save our country from the dangers which overhang it. We wish to lift off the perplexities and the shackles which, in the shape of bad laws and of crushing taxation, now paralyze the business and labor of our land. [Loud cheers.] "We hope, too, that we can give order, prosperity and hapiness to those sections of our country which suffer so deeply to-day in their homes and in all the fields of their industry from the unhappy events of the last eight years. I trust our actions will show that we are governed by earnest purposes to help all classes of our citizens. Avoiding harsh invectives against men, we should keep the public mind fixed upon the questions which must now be met and solved. [Cheers.] "Let us leave the past to the calm judgment of the future, and confront the perils of the day. [Cheers.] We are forced to meet the assertions in the resolutions put forth by the late Republican Convention. I aver there is not in this body one man who has it in his heart to excite so much of angry feeling against the Republican party as must be stirred up in the minds of those who read these declarations in the light of recent events, and in view of the condition of our country. In the first place, they congratulate the perplexed man of business, the burdened tax-payer, the laborer, whose hours of toil are lenghtened out by the growing costs of the necessaries of life, upon the success of that reconstruction policy which has brought all these evils upon them by the cost of its military despotism and the corruption of its bureau agencies. In one resolution they denounce all forms of re"GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION-I thank pudiation as a national crime. Then why you for the honor you have done me in did they put upon the statute books of the making me your presiding officer. [Cheers.] nation the laws which invite the citizens This Convention is made up of a large who borrow coin to force their creditors to number of delegates from all parts of our take debased paper, and thus wrong him broad land. To a great degree we are stran-out of a large share of his claim, in violation gers to each other, and view the subjects of the most solemn compact? [Loud cheerwhich agitate our country from different stand-points. We can not at once learn each other's mode of thought, or grasp all the facts which bear upon the minds of others. Yet our session must be brief, and we are forced to act without delay upon questions of an exciting character and of deep import to our country. To maintain order, to restrain all exhibition of passion, to drive out of our minds all unkind suspicions, is at this time a great duty. [Cheers.] "I rely upon your sense of this duty, and not upon my own ability, to sustain me in ing.] "If repudiation is a national crime, it is a crime to invite the citizens of this country thus to repudiate their individual promises. [Applause.] Was it not a crime to force the creditors of this and other States to take a currency, at times worth no more than forty cents on the dollar, in repayment for the sterling coin they gave to build roads and canals, which yield such ample returns of wealth and prosperity? [Applause.] Again, they say it is due to the laborer of the nation that taxation should be equalized; |